UARIA

24813
TELEGRAM TO THE CRIMEAN COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
Council of People's Commissars Simferopol
Alupka Executive Committee
[Before June 26, 1919]

In Alupka, Primorskaya Street 15, from the dacha Medzhe, there is being evicted a widow of the late geologist, scholar Mushketov,1 who rendered great services to the study of the geology of Russia, occupying one room. I request, if possible, to cancel the eviction or to provide another fully suitable premises.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

1 D. I. Mushketov — member of the slate committee and director of the Mining Institute in Petrograd. In the spring of 1919, under Mushketov's direction, work was organized on the development of slate deposits, principally in the vicinity of Weimar, Baltic Railway. In connection with the advance of the White Guards on Petrograd, this work was suspended.

NOTES TO GORKY AND ABOUT GORKY.

5/VII [1919]

Dear Alexei Maksimovich!

Really, it is evident that you have been sitting too long in Peter. It is not good to stay in one place. You grow weary and it becomes tiresome. Will you agree to take a trip, eh? We shall arrange it.

Your Lenin.

24601
Petrograd Smolny
or Kronverk 23
To Gorky

8/VII. 1919

I most earnestly request that you come tomorrow, or no later than Thursday. It is necessary to talk urgently.

Lenin.

* Telegram typewritten. —Ed.